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    [OC] White House Press Briefings: Name Drops


    There have been 30 White House Press Briefings by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt so far (not counting gaggles, comments outside the White House, etc.).

    I wanted to know: WHO is this administration talking about? Only Leavitt's words are used in the name count. The only thing filtered out, of course, is the President himself.

    Posted by shinyro

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    1. titlecharacter on

      I think what would be really insightful is comparing this to other administrations. For example, the first 30 days under Biden or Trump’s first term. Did they talk about prior Presidents more, less, or the same as Trump’s press secretary namedrops Biden? My naive guess is that this Trump administration is more fixated on Biden than Biden was on Trump, or Trump 1 was on Obama – but the data would bear that out, and intuition is often wrong.

    3. shinyro on

      Briefing transcripts are all publicly available and I used Python to analyze and Datwrapper for the bar chart.

      P.S. Of the 30 Briefings, 25 of them bring up former President Biden by name. The right coined the term TDS, or “Trump Derangement Syndrome” when the media couldn’t stop talking about Trump, but I would wager this could be called BDS by most standards.

    4. OmegaLysander on

      I think data is more beautiful when the chart can correctly spell the names of presidents. “Barak”… Seriously? 

    5. feder_online on

      Honestly, I thought Pooty or Ketamine-Buoy would be a lot higher, but we had to know Lyin’ Leavitt was blaming Biden for everything…

    6. TheManIWas5YearsAgo on

      I hate the phrase but…

      Joe Biden is living rent free in the heads of MAGA Republicans serving spicy TACOs.

    7. throwawayrefiguy on

      Biden Derangement Syndrome, and the entirety of the current administration is severely afflicted.

    8. Ulysses1978ii on

      Taco Belle is supposedly religious, hasn’t she heard of bearing false witness??

    10. seeyakid on

      Keep the base angry and keep them angry at someone else. It’s been his primary platform since Day 1.

    13. aircooledJenkins on

      Just to be sure, because you removed it but I wanted to see it, was Trump named more than Biden?

    15. Citizen-Kang on

      Joe Biden still living rent-free in MAGA minds half a year after the election.

    18. tazzietiger66 on

      Why are they so caught in worrying about a guy who is no longer president .

    19. jjune4991 on

      Would love to see how many of these were unprompted vs part of the question. Probably 75/25 for Biden. 🙄

    21. mattsc2005 on

      I kind of think you need to include “Trump” in the name drop statistic to see how others compare.